I grew up in a world where my mom’s boss was Moses Kotane, where Pauline Podbrey and HA Naidoo would come and visit. Cissie Gool and Sam Kahn were like Aunty Cissie and Uncle Sam to me. And that just established a normality of people being people but with energy and fun and hope. That was normal. So it wasn’t like some event that I saw that triggered. I just knew from my earliest moments that our whole society was completely wrong. And I was living already in another kind of a world… But I could just see injustice around me everywhere all the time. And so the normal for me was to be anti-racist and this world of segregation of exclusion, of marginalisation, of seeing some people as superior to others was kind of abnormal.
